The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-05-14
Notwithstanding the fact that the postoflic.

Notwithstanding the fact that the postoffce
at Western Run, 9Th district, was discontinued
some time ago, it is now announced from Wash
ington that the contract for carrying the mail on
the route between Cockeysville and that place has
been awarded to j. B. Colegroves for $12S per
annum.
Rev. E. W. Scott, pastor of st. James's
colored church, Towsontown, has received two
calls lately-one to q church at Elkton, Cecil
county, and the other to st. Paul's Church, Law
ender Hill, Hartford road. His people here do not
want to part with him, showing that he is in
great demand as pastor.
john Shilling, who for many years carried
on wheerighting in this town, but who was
obliged to give up the business on account of old
age and then went to the Little Sisters of Poor
John street, Baltimore, died in that institution
few days ago. He was a native of Germany and
upwards of so years of age.
At meeting of the Old Town Merchants
and Manufacturers Association on Tuesday night
a complaint was received from farmers and others
along the line of the Maryland Central railroad
against the high rates charged by that road for
carrying produce, and alleging that they can ship
to Philadelphia cheaper than to Baltimore.
-Towsontown is looking its prettest just
now. Our beautiful shade trees, which line the
on both sides, are nearly in full leaf, while
the blossoms of fruit trees and early flowers which
adorn lawns and gardens, make scene that the
eye loves to dwell upon. If there is prettier
place in Maryland than this we have never seen it.
The association of "Forty- Niners"-those
who were among the California pioneers from
Maryland in 1S49-has among its members Judge
George Yellott and Col. James Miller, of Towson-
town. and Mr.. Edward A. Hall, of Taylor, Har-
ford county, formerly of Baltimore county. The
association holds a reunion at Marshall Hall, on
the Potomac, to-day.
Ito IF fha
linois Central Railroad, feeling that he needed
rest from his onerous duties, lately rendered his
resignation to the company. The Board of Di-
rectors refused to accept it, but granted him
leave of absence for six months and he has come
home to Maryland for his vacation, portion of
which he will spend with his friends in Baltimore
county.
Mr.. John P. Kennedy, who was for some
time one of the bailifs in the Circuit Court here,
died at Upland Home on the 9th inst, aged about
IS years. Mr.. Kennedy was native of Balti-
more county and lived here all his life. He was
a man of generous impulses, kind-hearted and
genial and had large circle of friends. The
cause of his death was paralysis, from which he
had been long sufferer.
Hon. H. B. Holton, of Meadow View Stock
Farm, I'd district, observing that certain persons
are advertising for sale horses that are said to
have been sired by "Orange Blossom" makes the
public announcement that many of these are not
of his horses get and says that when there is any
doubt about the breeding of a horse said to be
sired by his stallion, purchasers can easily inform
themselves by communicating with him.
Col. John G. Cockey, president of the Tow
son National Bank, referring to what The UNION
said last week about a town clock in the tower OF
the new bank, said that if the matter had been
brought to his attention sooner-or before the
building had advanced too far-he would have
had the clock put in. We hope it is not yet too
late and that Col. Cockey, who never goes half
way in anything he undertakes, will yet give us
the clock.
The colored boy John Brown, charged with
killing companion named Richard Smith, in the
18th district about three weeks ago, and who was
confined in Jail here, has been released on habeas
corpus, the Court ordering the boys parents to
take charge of him and to produce him again if
the Grand Jury's action in the matter should
make it necessary. The killing is said to have
been accidental. John F. Centrum, Esq, was
counsel for Brown.
Complaints against the high fares on the
Maryland Central road continue and will have
the effect of driving people away from the road
next summer. Forty-two cents for a round trip
ticket from Towsontown to Boundary avenue
distance of seven miles, is an exorbitantly high
rate and will certainly not invite travel. Count
ing the city car fare the cost is 50 cents to the
centre of the city and back. This is certainly too
much and no wonder the people complain.
"A Towsontown coal dealer complains very
much of the high freight charges on the Maryland
Central road and says he can have his coal deliv-
cred at Lutherville and then haul it here cheaper
than he can bring it out by the Maryland Central.
An agent for Cincinnati safe manufacturer says
il cost him more to ship safe from Baltimore to
Towsontowu by rail than it did to bring it from
Cincinnati to Baltimore. Perhaps these are some
of the beauties of the Inter-S State Commerce law.
Some of the Masonic brethren of Towson-
town, who wanted to turn out in Thursdays
grand parade but not provided with high
silk hats, had lively time hunting up the neces
sary head gear among their neighbors, and some
of the old "plugs" that were brought out and
made to do duty were wonderful to look at.
Some of the Masons like the Texas preacher
and the pistol-they don't want a silk hat often,
but when they do want one they want it awful
bad.
-Housekeepers in Towsontown have to de-
pend almost entirely upon colored help and this
has got to be of the most uncertain character. Of
course there are some exceptions, but as rule the
women unreliable ana so utterly lncompe-
tent that many housekeepers prefer to do their
own work rather than bother with them. All
they seem to think of is getting "days off" and
their chief object appears to be to see how little
service they can render for the money they receive
A gentleman who was badly in need of servant,
secured one on Monday and she had not been with
him three days before she demanded a holiday to
90 on an excursion of some kind, and this one is
a fair sample of the majority of them. This
thing has got to be an intolerable nuisance and W
are not surprised that housekeepers are Disguised
and in many instances refuse to employ such I'M
reliable help.